Issue table of contents

Microbiology — Volume 146, Issue 11

30 articles in this issue

Review Article

Closing in on Chlamydia and its intracellular bag of tricks

Patrik M. Bavoil, Ru-ching Hsia, David M. Ojcius

p. 2723–2731

Virulence and drug susceptibility of Mycobacterium celatum

Fattorini, Lanfranco, Baldassarri, Lucilla, Li, Yong-Jun, Ammendolia, Maria Grazia, Fan, Yuming, Recchia, Simona, Iona, Elisabetta, Orefici, Graziella

p. 2733

A novel multidrug efflux transporter gene of the major facilitator superfamily from Candida albicans (FLU1) conferring resistance to fluconazole

Calabrese, David, Bille, Jacques, Sanglard, Dominique

p. 2743

A phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase of Candida albicans influences adhesion, filamentous growth and virulence

Bruckmann, Astrid, Kunkel, Waldemar, Hartl, Albert, Wetzker, Reinhard, Eck, Raimund

p. 2755

Intra- and intermolecular events direct the propeptide-mediated maturation of the Candida albicans secreted aspartic proteinase Sap1p

Beggah, S., Lechenne, B., Reichard,, U., Foundling, S., Monod, M.

p. 2765

Susceptibility of calves to challenge with Salmonella typhimurium 4/74 and derivatives harbouring mutations in htrA or purE

Villarreal-Ramos, Bernardo, Manser, Jacquie M., Collins, Robert A., Chance, Victoria, Eckersall, David, Jones, Phillip W., Dougan, Gordon

p. 2775

Mitogenic factor (MF) is the major DNase of serotype M89 Streptococcus pyogenes

Sriskandan, Shiranee, Unnikrishnan, Meera, Krausz, Thomas, Cohen, Jonathan

p. 2785

The complete cps gene cluster from Streptococcus thermophilus NCFB 2393 involved in the biosynthesis of a new exopolysaccharide

Almiron-Roig, Eva, Mulholland, Francis, Gasson, Michael J., Griffin, Annette M.

p. 2793

Involvement of the rml locus in core oligosaccharide and O polysaccharide assembly in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Rahim, Rahim, Burrows, Lori L., Monteiro, Mario A., Perry, Malcolm B., Lam, Joseph S.

p. 2803

Xenorhabdus bovienii T228 phase variation and virulence are independent of RecA function

Pinyon, Rebecca A., Hew, Fan Hing, Thomas, Connor J.

p. 2815

The plcR regulon is involved in the opportunistic properties of Bacillus thuringiensis and Bacillus cereus in mice and insects

Salamitou, Sylvie, Ramisse, Francoise, Brehelin, Michel, Bourguet, Denis, Gilois, Nathalie, Gominet, Myriam, Hernandez, Eric, Lereclus, Didier

p. 2825

Mutational and hyperexpression-induced disruption of bipolar budding in yeast

Freedman, Toby, Porter, Alexandra, Haarer, Brian

p. 2833

Comparative sequence analyses reveal frequent occurrence of short segments containing an abnormally high number of non-random base variations in bacterial rRNA genes

Wang, Yue, Zhang, Zhenshui

p. 2845

Definition of the attI1 site of class 1 integrons

Partridge, Sally R., Recchia, Gavin D., Scaramuzzi, Carol, Collis, Christina M., Stokes, H. W., Hall, Ruth M.

p. 2855

Allele-specific PCR shows that genetic exchange occurs among genetically diverse Nodularia (Cyanobacteria) filaments in the Baltic Sea

Barker, Gary L. A., Handley, Barbara A., Vacharapiyasophon, Panmuk, Stevens, Jamie R., Hayes, Paul K.

p. 2865

Stress responses of Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 mutants impaired in genes encoding putative alternative sigma factors

Huckauf, Jana, Nomura, Chris, Forchhammer, Karl, Hagemann, Martin

p. 2877

The SOS promoter dinH is essential for ftsK transcription during cell division

Dorazi, Robert, Dewar, Susan J.

p. 2891

Catabolite repression of dra-nupC-pdp operon expression in Bacillus subtilis

Zeng, Xianmin, Galinier, Anne, Saxild, Hans H.

p. 2901

GcvA binding site 1 in the gcvTHP promoter of Escherichia coli is required for GcvA-mediated repression but not for GcvA-mediated activation

Wonderling, Laura D., Urbanowski, Mark L., Stauffer, George V.

p. 2909

Identification of DNA-binding proteins involved in regulation of expression of the Streptomyces aureofaciens sigF gene, which encodes sporulation sigma factor {sigma}F

Homerova, D., Sevcikova, B., Sprusansky, O., Kormanec, J.

p. 2919

The Bacillus subtilis 168 csn gene encodes a chitosanase with similar properties to a Streptomyces enzyme

Rivas, Luis A., Parro, Victor, Moreno-Paz, Mercedes, Mellado, Rafael P.

p. 2929

Transcriptional co-regulation of five chitinase genes scattered on the Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) chromosome

Saito, Akihiro, Ishizaka, Masumi, Francisco, Perigio B., Jr, Fujii, Takeshi, Miyashita, Kiyotaka

p. 2937

A novel thermostable multidomain 1,4-{beta}-xylanase from 'Caldibacillus cellulovorans' and effect of its xylan-binding domain on enzyme activity

Sunna, Anwar, Gibbs, Moreland D., Bergquist, Peter L.

p. 2947

A periplasmic, {alpha}-type carbonic anhydrase from Rhodopseudomonas palustris is essential for bicarbonate uptake

Puskas, Laszlo G., Inui, Masayuki, Zahn, Kenneth, Yukawa, Hideaki

p. 2957

Growth inhibition of Escherichia coli by dichloromethane in cells expressing dichloromethane dehalogenase/glutathione S-transferase

Evans, Gareth J., Ferguson, Gail P., Booth, Ian R., Vuilleumier, Stephane

p. 2967

Control of periplasmic nitrate reductase gene expression (napEDABC) from Paracoccus pantotrophus in response to oxygen and carbon substrates

Sears, Heather J., Sawers, Gary, Berks, Ben C., Ferguson, Stuart J., Richardson, David J.

p. 2977

The Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viciae glnD gene, encoding a uridylyltransferase/uridylyl-removing enzyme, is expressed in the root nodule but is not essential for nitrogen fixation

Schluter, Andreas, Nohlen, Michael, Kramer, Maria, Defez, Roberto, Priefer, Ursula B.

p. 2987